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The labor market in Poland : 2000-2021 : employment has been rising, but disadvantaged groups and low participation of older people pose challenges
Lewandowski, Piotr; Magda, Iga - 2023
In the early 2000s, Poland's unemployment rate reached 20%. That is now a distant memory, as employment has increased … noticeably and the unemployment rate had dropped to 3.4% in 2021. The labor force participation of older workers increased … underemployed. During the Covid-19 pandemic the slowdown in economic growth and increase in unemployment were small. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014289736
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The changing nature of jobs in Central and Eastern Europe : restructuring and upskilling prevents job polarization but may leave countries vulnerable to routine-biased technical ch...
Lewandowski, Piotr - 2017
Job polarization can pose serious problems for emerging economies that rely on worker reallocation from low-skilled to middle-skilled jobs to converge toward advanced economies. Evidence from Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries shows that structural change and education expansion can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011634488
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The labor market in Poland, 2000−2016 : employment has been rising, but low participation of older people and a large share of temporary jobs pose challenges
Lewandowski, Piotr; Magda, Iga - 2018
In the early 2000s, Poland’s unemployment rate reached 20%. That is now a distant memory, as employment has increased … noticeably and the unemployment rate has dropped to 5%. However, most of the net job creation has consisted of temporary jobs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798224
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Shocks and rigidities as determinants of the CEE labor markets’ performance - a panel SVECM approach -
Bukowski, Maciej Krzysztof; Koloch, Grzegorz; … - Instytut Badań Strukturalnych - 2008
determinant of employment and unemployment variability in the short-run. The retrospective simulations of the model show that the … rigidities were especially binding after employment-contracting shocks in Poland, Czech Republic, Lithuania. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011171794
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What if you were German? - DSGE approach to the Great Recession on labour markets
Antosiewicz, Marek; Lewandowski, Piotr - Instytut Badań Strukturalnych - 2014
In this paper we utilize an open economy DSGE model to analyse factors behind the Great Recession and its transmission into labour markets of selected Southern European countries. We introduce a number of shocks which form potential sources of macroeconomic disturbances, in particular: foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011099868
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The effects of minimum wage on a labour market with high temporary employment
Kamińska, Agnieszka; Lewandowski, Piotr - Instytut Badań Strukturalnych - 2015
number of separations due to the minimum wage hikes reached 1% of the total employment of people aged 15-54. Women with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185801